All the articles from the November/December 2025 issue of The Structural Engineer.
Publish Date – 17 November 2025
IStructE CEO, Yasmin Becker, shares the Institution's achievements in this transformative year and looks ahead to a new five-year strategy.
This article introduces the unique and challenging engineering role that structural engineers play within urban search and rescue teams.
This month's report concerns design issues encountered when reviewing connection designs. The reporter discovered a moment connection between a universal beam and a universal column, with the moment connection being made to the web of the column.
As risk management becomes an increasingly important part of structural engineers' work, IStructE Technical Director Patrick Hayes explores some of the complexities in applying its practice to the realm of building safety problems.
Cliff Smith of the Get it Right Initiative (GIRI) explains how the organisation is working to reduce error in the construction industry and offers some examples of approaches in practice.
Discover the winners at the Structural Awards 2025 and which project won the Supreme Award.
As the UK awaits a new National Annex to the second-generation EN 1991-1-3, Alastair Hughes and Stewart Macartney make a case for considering some important changes to the way snow is treated and argue for user-friendly, zoomable snow maps allowing local conditions to be factored into designs.
Letters this month include views on a recent IStructE publication, ethics in structural engineering and pay.
A round-up of events at Institution HQ and around the regional groups.
Associate Editor, Chiara Bedon, has chosen a paper evaluating a space-saving seismic damper through performance tests, numerical simulation and finite element analysis as the Featured Article for Volume 78 of Structures.
The Institution's Library Manager, Laura Cooper, explains how this membership benefit is expected to change in early 2026 and what members need to do to continue to borrow titles.